Kid: my turtle got no points. I have a pet turtle. He got zero. We got 8.

The second one stumped me, until he did that thing I do when I make a really tenuous pun. You know… ‘total…turtle… get it?!’

It’s brilliant that one of my students is trying to make jokes in English at such a young age! Next lesson I’m going to bring out some of my very best Christmas cracker jokes to see if he’s up for a pun-off:

“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled.― Paulo Freire